This is a Lansdowne Street dance club that rarely has any good punk shows anymore. I saw Rancid there with Rocket From the Crypt and Waterdog about 3 or 4 years ago while it still had all ages shows there. You'll occasionally find a good show here. Past performers have been: Fishbone, Pavement, Paul Weller, Morphine, L7, Hole, Sebadoh, Violent Femmes, Buffalo Tom, Letters to Cleo, Pennywise, Veruca Salt, Matthew Sweet, Juliana Hatfield, Henry Rollins, Bad Brains, and others. Lately they have been trying to do some more all ages shows (Orgy, Moby) but for the most part it's 18+.

This is another Lansdowne Street dance club and rarely has any shows worth mentioning, but Nirvana, Henry Rollins, The Breeders, Green Day, The Offspring, and Rancid have all played here in the past. Now everything there is strictly 18+.

Generally a bar and dance hall, Thursday nights are local nights for punk, ska, rockabilly, and other acts like that to perform and Sunday nights are the reggae nights. All shows are 18+, 19+, or 21+ but they may try to do some Sunday matinee All Ages shows over the Summer of '99. Already Skavoovie & the Epitones, 7th Rail Crew, Youth Brigade, The Cuffs, 4 Heads Deep, and Reach the Sky have done all ages shows there.

Boston Commons
Boston, MA
MBTA: green or red line to Park Street

Not a common place for shows, but they do allow the Gay Pride Fest (Babaloo & Pansy Division have played), The Hemp Rally (aka Freedom Fest) with bands like Sam Black Church, Letters to Cleo, Babaloo, Dion Knibb & the Agitators, etc. and on First Night when they have a few stands set up with the likes of the Strangemen.

Center for the Arts
31 Main Street
Natick, MA 01760
508-647-0097
MBTA: commuter rail - South Station to Natick on Worcester/Framingham line

A space where there have been a lot of attempts at DIY shows. Unfortunately nobody has been showing up to many of the shows there. Hopefully they'll continue to allow these all ages shows.

One of the fanciest Chinese restaurants in Boston and they have a ballroom. This ballroom is where Converge and Hot Water Music have played. I don't know if they are having any more shows there though.

First & Second Church
66 Marlborough Street
Boston, MA 02116
617-267-6730
MBTA: green line to Boylston

Used to be a great place for hardcore and punk shows. All the hardcore ones went over well, but at some of the others people brought alcohol even though they shouldn't have. Overcrowding was also a problem. Fastbreak, Code 13, The Pinkerton Thugs, The Ducky Boys, Ten Yard Fight, Floorpunch, Fit For Abuse, Banner of Hope, Saves the Day, Diecast, The Trouble, Anti-Flag, Bane, Open Up, The Trust, Reach the Sky, Los Crudos, In My Eyes, and some others all played here. Give it some time and maybe they'll try again.

Fleet Center
One Fleet Center
Boston, MA 02114
617-624-1000http://www.fleetcenter.com/
MBTA: green line or orange line to North Station; commuter rail to North Station

Where Boston's own Bruins (and the Celtics) play. Sometimes they have huge shows here like DMX, Aerosmith, Bruce Springsteen, Maceo Parker, Ani DiFranco, etc... look to spend tons of money on a ticket.

newer club. they used to do all ages shows. they now only do 21+, but may do all ages again sometime. In My Eyes, Ten Yard Fight, Link 80, The Goonies, Fiesel, Longfellow, and others have played here.

Great Scott
1222 Commonwealth Avenue
Allston, MA 02134
617-734-4502

Greek American Political Club
288 Green Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
MBTA: red line to Central Square

This was a great club until it got shutdown because of a fight at the Trouble/Anti-Heros/Ducky Boys/Patriot show. Other bands that have played here: Floorpunch, Hatebreed, Death Threat, The Pilfers, Reach the Sky, Kicked in the Head, Spring Heeled Jack, Big D & the Kids' Table, Edna's Goldfish, The Racketeers, The Living End, Metro Stylee, and others... Maybe they'll have more shows after a while.

A club of 27 years, Johnny D's hosts jazz, blues, latin, rock, and international acts almost nightly. It is also a restaurant that specializes in vegetarian food and use free range and natural chicken and beef.

primarily a dance club, only recently have they started to have bigger shows. Has hosted bands like Shades apart and Sunny Day Real Estate. Earth Crisis, Fastbreak, Kula Shaker, Kid Dynamite, Blood For Blood, and Saves the Day are playing all ages shows there in the near future. They have an eastern atmosphere with art from India, Nepal, & Tibet.

Has a bar and two different halls as well as a pool room. One huge hall, where 1998's Tin Can Full of Dreams fest was held, is great for shows. The basement hall is tiny but fun for a smaller show. Literally 5 minutes off rt. 495. To rent out either room, it costs $350.

Really great place to have a show. Right off rt. 133 and near China Blossom (for when you get hungry). Problem, they don't like allowing people to do shows there. They tried to convince me that I had never been to a show there before. In the past pop-punk has been the only music there: The Useless Fucks, She's A Guy, The Greasers, 4 Heads Deep, The Carpet Patrol, SPIFF45, go48, PYL, 5 Bucks!, Zeke's Garage, John's Room, etc...

Really nice stage. This is where I've done most of my shows (Link 80, Humble Beginnings, Drexel, Kicked in the Head, The Goonies, Argyle Socks, Longfellow, The Decepticonz, Cleo, Lanemeyer, Carpet Patrol, Clockwork, SPIFF45, five*o*five, PYL, Phil…) and other bands have performed like Letters to Cleo, The Verve Pipe, The Pinkerton Thugs, Private Army, go48, The Greasers, Barrit, Piebald, Year of Our Lord, Cave In, Prophetic Disclosure, The Bends, The Abnormals, Over It, 4 Heads Deep, The Jonee Eartquake Band, Beasts of Amerika, Open Up, Positive Outlook and coming soon are such bands as ErrorType:11, Mid Carson July, The Little Dipper, Garrison, The Warren Commission, The Rosenthal Project, etc. This can hold about 600 people (maybe more) and is right off route 114. It costs $150 to rent and a minimum of $300 for cops but usually more.

One of the best clubs in Boston area. They went 18+ after an incident involving a broken neck during April 1998. All sorts of music is performed here from jazz to emo to hardcore to metal to pop-punk to street-punk to hip-hop to traditional ska to reggae to experimental and so on and so forth. Save Ferris, MxPx, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, H2O, Murphy's Law, Warzone, etc are some of the bigger bands that have played there.

This is one of the worst clubs I've been to, but unfortunately they have lots of good shows. Squirrel Nut Zippers, Less Than Jake, Snapcase, Good Riddance, Gang Green, Eastcide, Discount, Converge, ALL, Rancid, Hepcat, BB King, Reach the Sky, Earth Crisis, H2O, Mustard Plug, Dillinger Escape Plan, Cave In, The Toasters, Vision of Disorder, MU330, The Deftones, and many others have performed here. The bouncers tend to be extremely reactive and are quite forceful. There's a gate about 5 to 10 feet in front of the stage and a tiny dancefloor. There are lots of seats and a balcony, but face it, who wants to sit down during a show? Also, when the floor gets too crowded bouncers ask the people in the back to "take a seat". Skate '98 was held here and Skate '99 will be held here (metal/hardcore fests), The New England Metal Fest was held here as was the Ska Against Racism tour. Shows aren't too frequently here and when there aren't shows on the ECW wrestling league wrestles here.

U2, Van Halen, Dead Milkmen, The Pixies, Butthole Surfers, The Lemonheads, Faith No More, Sebadoh, Sick of it All, The Cranberries, The Buzzcocks, X, Reverend Horton Heat, Shonen Knife, Letters to Cleo, Buffalo Tom, Mighty Mighty Bosstones have played there. Sunday nights there is a reggae night and Thursday nights there is the local punk/ska/garage/hardcore or the like show. They're also thinking about doing Sunday matinee all ages shows for the summer.

used to have all sorts of shows, but cancelled Sick of It All and now refuses to do punk, hardcore, or metal shows. This is about a 2 hour drive from Boston, but for some of the ska and reggae and jazz shows they do, it's well worth it.

Great DIY space run by the Worcester Artist's Alliance or something like that. Metal, hardcore, emo, and punk stuff is here on almost every Sunday and lots of Fridays and Saturdays and some other dates too. Grade, Morning Again, Adamantium, The Swarm, Isis, Burn it Down, Bane, Barrit, Cave In, Converge, Ten Yard Fight, Open Up, The Trust, Proclamation, Piebald, Kid Dynamite, Panthro UK United 13, Saves the Day, Damnation AD are some of the bigger acts to have played here.

St. John's Gym
149 Chestnut Street
Clinton, MA

There haven't been shows here for a while. Neurosis, Cave In, Dillinger Escape Plan, AVAIL, Converge, Unsane, Suicide Machines, Ignite, Bouncing Souls, NOFX, and other bands have performed here in the past.

Located right on the Merrimack River, this new arena can hold 7800 people. It is usually a hockey rink for The UMASS-Lowell River Hawks. Performances there in the past have included blink 182, Korn, The Aquabats, and Hanson.

Some pop-punk, emo shows. Occassional ska stuff. More local but you get bands like Jets to Brazil and the Groovie Ghoulies and the Donnas coming through from time to time.

Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts
885 South Main Street
Mansfield, MA
MBTA: commuter rail - South Station to Mansfield via Attleboro/Providence

Used to be Great Woods. Holds close to 20,000 people. Weezer, No Doubt, blink182, Green Day, The Offspring, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, face to face, The Lunacicks, Bim Skala Bim, Jewel, and others have played there. It's open during the summer months and is quite expensive.

There were some great shows here set up by Shred, but it ran its worth as it fell subject to overcrowding. Joshua, Close Call, Garrison, The Shyness Clinic, Battery, Reach the Sky, Bane, Piebald, Six Going on Seven all played here.